Agile Jobs in Scotland

Agile Software Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,014 1,419 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 44.38% 31.72% 31.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 48.64% 33.58% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 424 749 1,069
10th Percentile £37,725 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in Scotland.

Salary trend for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in Scotland

Agile
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -2 2,537 £60,000 +9.09% 82
Edinburgh 0 351 £60,000 -8.19% 81
Aberdeen -11 31 £48,750 +2.63% 14
West Lothian -2 18 - - 2
Fife +3 17 £43,200 -17.71%
Lanarkshire -4 11 £46,000 +2.22% 37
Dundee -8 9 £45,000 +2.86% 3
South Lanarkshire - 6 £65,000 -
Scottish Borders +5 4 - -
Renfrewshire -2 4 - - 1
Aberdeenshire -4 3 £50,000 +108.33% 2
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Inverclyde - 3 £52,500 - 1
Argyll and Bute -7 2 - -
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Angus - 1 £40,000 - 1
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 567 (18.81%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (3.45%) Apache
4 102 (3.38%) FileNet
5 69 (2.29%) Confluence
6 60 (1.99%) ArcGIS
6 60 (1.99%) GeoServer
7 32 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
8 21 (0.70%) GemFire
9 19 (0.63%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) CICS
11 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.27%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.17%) SAS
14 5 (0.17%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Captiva
16 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 31 (1.03%) UserZoom
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.50%) Sketch
5 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.100%) InVision
9 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.033%) Revit
9 1 (0.033%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.033%) Endur
6 1 (0.033%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,306 (43.33%) AWS
2 331 (10.98%) Azure
3 178 (5.91%) GCP
4 102 (3.38%) Amazon S3
5 101 (3.35%) Datadog
6 76 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (2.09%) Figma
8 62 (2.06%) Serverless
9 60 (1.99%) SaaS
10 59 (1.96%) GitHub
11 58 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
11 58 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 54 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
15 50 (1.66%) Amazon EMR
16 47 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
17 42 (1.39%) SurveyMonkey
18 39 (1.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.72%) Kerberos
2 25 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.60%) Broadband
4 17 (0.56%) DSL
5 12 (0.40%) Internet
5 12 (0.40%) Modbus
6 8 (0.27%) BGP
6 8 (0.27%) DNS
6 8 (0.27%) SSL
7 5 (0.17%) Wireless
8 4 (0.13%) LAN
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
8 4 (0.13%) RS-232
8 4 (0.13%) WAN
9 3 (0.100%) Firewall
9 3 (0.100%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.100%) VLAN
10 2 (0.066%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.066%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.033%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (22.10%) NoSQL
2 490 (16.26%) Big Data
3 229 (7.60%) Hadoop
4 158 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
5 153 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 128 (4.25%) Apache Hive
7 125 (4.15%) Relational Database
8 100 (3.32%) HBase
9 91 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 83 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (2.19%) Data Lake
12 65 (2.16%) Metadata
13 60 (1.99%) GIS
13 60 (1.99%) QGIS
14 51 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
15 50 (1.66%) SQL Server
16 45 (1.49%) MySQL
17 40 (1.33%) DB2
18 39 (1.29%) Qlik Sense
19 38 (1.26%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 313 (10.38%) Jenkins
2 222 (7.37%) Git
3 214 (7.10%) JUnit
4 161 (5.34%) JIRA
5 119 (3.95%) Jasmine
6 100 (3.32%) Cypress.io
7 90 (2.99%) Bitbucket
8 85 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 79 (2.62%) Maven
10 74 (2.46%) Karma Test Runner
11 70 (2.32%) Selenium
12 66 (2.19%) Artifactory
13 64 (2.12%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.99%) Protractor
15 48 (1.59%) Mockito
16 30 (1.00%) CircleCI
16 30 (1.00%) Gradle
16 30 (1.00%) JMeter
17 28 (0.93%) Cucumber
18 25 (0.83%) Android Studio
General
1 2,443 (81.06%) Finance
2 2,349 (77.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,286 (75.85%) Law
4 1,206 (40.01%) Marketing
5 670 (22.23%) Legal
6 519 (17.22%) Banking
7 388 (12.87%) Social Skills
8 333 (11.05%) Investment Banking
9 249 (8.26%) Financial Institution
10 184 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
11 110 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
12 87 (2.89%) Private Banking
13 71 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.43%) Public Sector
15 39 (1.29%) Games
16 22 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
17 21 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.60%) Front Office
19 16 (0.53%) Publishing
19 16 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2,083 (69.11%) Software Engineer
2 770 (25.55%) Java Engineer
3 763 (25.32%) Java Software Engineer
4 750 (24.88%) Lead
5 678 (22.50%) Lead Software Engineer
6 418 (13.87%) Senior
7 382 (12.67%) Big Data Engineer
7 382 (12.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 329 (10.92%) Python Engineer
8 329 (10.92%) Python Software Engineer
9 300 (9.95%) Full Stack Engineer
10 299 (9.92%) AWS Engineer
11 298 (9.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 296 (9.82%) AWS Software Engineer
13 283 (9.39%) Senior Software Engineer
14 274 (9.09%) Lead Java Engineer
15 251 (8.33%) Data Engineer
16 234 (7.76%) Developer
17 224 (7.43%) Scala Engineer
17 224 (7.43%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (22.89%) Spring
2 580 (19.24%) React
3 414 (13.74%) AngularJS
4 371 (12.31%) Kafka
5 350 (11.61%) Spring Boot
6 322 (10.68%) CSS
7 301 (9.99%) HTML
8 245 (8.13%) J2EE
9 222 (7.37%) Node.js
10 221 (7.33%) JSON
11 207 (6.87%) RESTful
12 200 (6.64%) Hibernate
13 181 (6.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 172 (5.71%) PySpark
15 171 (5.67%) JMS
16 170 (5.64%) .NET
17 155 (5.14%) jQuery
18 144 (4.78%) Web Services
19 133 (4.41%) GraphQL
20 126 (4.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 797 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 772 (25.61%) Algorithms
3 281 (9.32%) Public Cloud
4 168 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 153 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 117 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 112 (3.72%) Reference Data
8 103 (3.42%) Market Risk
9 100 (3.32%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.16%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
11 42 (1.39%) Legacy Code
12 39 (1.29%) Private Cloud
13 35 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
14 30 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 25 (0.83%) Credit Risk
17 24 (0.80%) Social Media
18 21 (0.70%) Replication
19 15 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 157 (5.21%) Unix
2 151 (5.01%) Linux
3 35 (1.16%) Android
4 33 (1.09%) Windows
5 15 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.033%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.033%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,334 (77.44%) Software Engineering
2 2,091 (69.38%) SDLC
3 1,973 (65.46%) CI/CD
4 1,747 (57.96%) Operational Stability
5 1,346 (44.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,316 (43.66%) Machine Learning
7 1,269 (42.10%) Community of Practice
8 893 (29.63%) Visualisation
9 889 (29.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 702 (23.29%) Risk Management
11 525 (17.42%) Microservices
12 505 (16.76%) Decision-Making
13 480 (15.93%) Continuous Delivery
14 448 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
15 409 (13.57%) Architectural Design
16 404 (13.40%) Information Architecture
17 389 (12.91%) Full Stack Development
18 344 (11.41%) DevOps
19 326 (10.82%) Test Automation
20 314 (10.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,615 (53.58%) Java
2 1,118 (37.09%) SQL
3 948 (31.45%) Python
4 457 (15.16%) JavaScript
5 316 (10.48%) Scala
6 252 (8.36%) TypeScript
7 189 (6.27%) C#
8 149 (4.94%) PL/SQL
9 89 (2.95%) Go
10 65 (2.16%) Prolog
10 65 (2.16%) SPARQL
11 42 (1.39%) Groovy
12 39 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.19%) C++
13 36 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.66%) Ruby
16 14 (0.46%) C
16 14 (0.46%) PowerShell
17 13 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 225 (7.47%) Degree
2 145 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 136 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 44 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 28 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.43%) ACCA
9 11 (0.36%) CIMA
9 11 (0.36%) CISA
10 9 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.27%) PMP
11 8 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.17%) HND
14 4 (0.13%) ISEB
14 4 (0.13%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.100%) PhD
16 2 (0.066%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.12%) Accessibility
2 73 (2.42%) QA
3 60 (1.99%) SLA
4 40 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 32 (1.06%) PMO
7 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 14 (0.46%) GDPR
8 14 (0.46%) WAI
9 11 (0.36%) ITGC
10 5 (0.17%) WCAG
11 4 (0.13%) DICOM
11 4 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.13%) HL7
11 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.066%) GLP
12 2 (0.066%) SEPA
13 1 (0.033%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.033%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 100 (3.32%) HDFS
2 76 (2.52%) Docker
3 74 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.17%) RACF
6 3 (0.100%) Firmware
6 3 (0.100%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.100%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.033%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 362 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 258 (8.56%) Terraform
3 161 (5.34%) Grafana
4 65 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (0.73%) Kibana
7 21 (0.70%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.70%) Zipkin
8 18 (0.60%) Ansible
9 7 (0.23%) Graphite
10 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.100%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.066%) Istio
12 2 (0.066%) Rancher
13 1 (0.033%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.033%) Puppet
13 1 (0.033%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 374 (12.41%) Oracle
2 231 (7.66%) Databricks
3 169 (5.61%) Splunk
4 147 (4.88%) Dynatrace
5 105 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 100 (3.32%) Google
7 86 (2.85%) Informatica
8 70 (2.32%) Cloudera
9 60 (1.99%) ESRI
10 56 (1.86%) Alteryx
11 39 (1.29%) SAP
12 31 (1.03%) Qualtrics
13 28 (0.93%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 23 (0.76%) Pega
16 22 (0.73%) Sybase
17 18 (0.60%) SaltStack
18 17 (0.56%) CA
18 17 (0.56%) Cognos
19 14 (0.46%) IBM